Motivational Quotes

Change

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Change

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

17.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

38.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

39.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

47.

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall